The Chicago Tribune photo team employs a full-on blitz for Chicago Bears Monday Night Football appearances -- we'll have three staff photographers on the field at Candlestick Park and photo editors ready to receive their images back in Chicago.

West Coast night games bring special deadline challenges, with kick-off at 7:30 p.m. here in Chicago. That means the game is wrapping up out West as our presses are starting to roll back here. The challenges that pose include the need to quickly design pages and get them to the presses.

That means each shooter needs to be equipped with a device that allows them to use cell phone signals to nearly instantly send high-resolution action pictures directly from their cameras on the sideline. As these images arrive at Tribune Tower, photo editors crop and caption the pictures for immediate use on ChicagoTribune.com, as well as the Tribune's Bears iPad app and the Chicago Tribune printed edition.

[Here's our Bears coverage online. And if you read this post during the game, click here to watch along with our panel of Bears experts (Fred Mitchell, Steve Rosenbloom and Mike Kellams) doing a live web cast from the Chicago Tribune newsroom during the game.]

At big events where nearly everyone has a cell phone, local cellular systems sometimes aren't able to handle all of the communication traffic. If this happens, our photographers will rotate off the field as the game unfolds to quickly send pictures to the Tribune "the old-fashioned way" -- by using their laptop computers connected to the internet in a media room at the stadium.

With action pictures in hand, photo editors in Chicago work with the designers of our Sports pages, iPad app, and the CT.com website to present the most fantastic and informative game shots to our readers.